Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-05-18
NO PEACE IN A PALACE.

ANGRY SCENES IN THE ROYAL
HOUSEHOLD or GERMANY.
the Empress Doesn't Get Along wen
with Hsr Husband, and she Dstssts
tho CroSn Rrincess--Eacts Not Gsner-
ally Kn-wn.
When Emperor William receives q
stranger he looks ct him sharply and gives
the impression that he is turning over In
his mind whether the person before him
would be more suitable as huSsar,
cuiraSSier, q dragon or mere infantry-
man His face is wrinkled to an extraor-
binary degree, and the look of the eyes is
somewhat sad. But the face hghtens up
with kindly smile as the old gentleman
gives a military twist upward to his snow
white mustaches The emperor talks In
short sentences His conversation is Of
the brusque, stocky nature affected by
old soldiers who prefer hearty shake Of
the hand to fine speeches.
He used to be able to speak French
pretty well, but has now almost forgotten
1t, only remembering q few set ceremonial
phrases, which he uses in addressing the
French ambassador or ambassadors.
English he still speaks correctly. having
learned it thoroughly when, after the sad
events of 184S, he was forced to spend al
most two years in England. The en-
peror has never had any prctensions to be
considered a man interested in science or
art Together with Prince Bismarck and
Field Marshal Count Moltke, he takes
pride In never having set his foot inside o
only French novel which he has ever read
is the .Wandering jew. ~ His table Isl,
covered with military pamphlets, and
every week he Chances through Tho Lon-
don Illustrated News, Graphic ard The
French Illustration There Is d certain
kind of mysticism pervailing tho old
gentleman's manner and conversation. It
Is even disccInible in the sympathetic
tones of his. voice HIS sascribcs every
thing to Divine Providence Nor mustsit
be supposed for one instant that this Is
merely figure Of speech to be produced
for the bcnefit-of the public. On the con-
trary, HIS life shows that he is pervadcd
with the idea that In everything he Is the
mere instrument OF the Almighty. !
AN ILL TEMPERED EMPRESS. . Kfga
EARLY in the morning, about 10 o'clock,
the empress makes APPOINT of visiting the
emperor In his study. This ID the only
time during the whole of the twenty four
hours when husband and wife see each
other without witnesses. OF course, moth
ing certain is known about their conversa-
ton on these occasions, but presumably
politics are not referred to. Since the fall
Of her favorite Count Arnim the empress
has withdrawn from all interference in the
affairs Of the government, and has even
become reconciled to- her former own
particular enemy, Prince Bismarck.
1t is somewhat amusing to know
that the only newspaper which she
reads is The Paris Temps, which
she prefers to all others, even The Cologne
Gazette. In the evening, toward 10
o'clock, the emperor makes his way up
stairs toward the empress tea table, where
he invariably spends about twenty min
utes to half an hour in gossiping with her
and with her pet cronies, the Duke and
He always maintains the most complete
equanimity OF temper, and If HIS wife ID
more than usually irritable he merely
shrugs his shoulders with smile and
mutters something about her Russian
blood, n alluding, no doubt, to the fact Of
her being q direct descendant Of the crazy
Emperor Paul Of Russia. The subject
which above all others forms the favorite
topic of the empress conversation Is the
unpleasantness which exists between her.
self and her daughter-in-law the crown
princess, whom, notwithstanding all mp
pearances to the contrary, she most cor
daily detests. Both the emperor and en-
press feel and believe that the Inomentth0
new sovereign succeeds to the throne most
Of their old servants viii be got rid Of and
changed. The empress Is most bitter on
the sIbiecE and often asserts that when